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2 years, 2 months ago
Kim Dotkom, the founder of the file exchange MegaUpload service who is pursued lately by continuous troubles as a result of a verdict of court of New Zealand is recognized by an extradition subject on the territory of the USA. FBI considers that MegaUpload brought to the creator $175 million the illegal income, and the general damage of owners exceeded the sum of $500 million. The Dotcom denies these charges, claiming that there is no actual difference between its service and, for example, DropBox and therefore it is not guilty.

The French consumers also call for toughening of responsibility for data leakage

The federal consumers union of France made to Valve the claim, having declared that Steam and terms of service of service violate a number of legitimate rights of citizens of the European Union, including the right to legal resale of the purchased software.

Members of UFC Que-Choisir existing for 64 years (further "Federal consumers union") insist that Valve is obliged to give to users of the Steam service an opportunity at desire to resell legally purchased digital games. Noting that in many online stores certain restrictions for resale of products are provided, the Federal consumers union claims that it is very difficult to understand why it is possible to resell physical disks with games, and prohibition works for digital games. Any judgment prohibiting to resell the purchased games on online flea markets was not made. Moreover, it is remembered, representatives of the European court unambiguously explained that it is allowed to resell the software which is an integral part of video game.

The federal consumers union appeals to a solution of the European court of 2012 concerning resale of the loaded software licensed by the Oracle company. The resolution says: "Does not matter whether the copy of the computer program was made by means of loading from the website of the owner or by means of the material carrier, for example, CD ROM or DVD".

The agreement on licensing of video will protect 4K-records in the future

Recently the future of a format 4K is questionable. The independent company HEVC Advance which is engaged in licensing of video of the H.265/HEVC format requested considerable assignments almost from all without any exception, even free services faced need to pay the small sums. The price for many turned out too big, and giants of the industry began to work on the free formats that on anybody not to depend. HEVC Advance did not become puzzled and offered the updated scheme of licensing. Though this scheme can still be expensive, it, however, will help to protect rather cheap 4K content.

Alexander Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor, declared high probability of blocking of the largest Russian torrent trackers next year. The largest resources such are going to be blocked forever, write "Sheets". "15 most popular torrent trackers are entered by efforts of owners in the list on eternal blocking" — the head of department at the forum "Internet Economy of 2015" reported.

He also noticed that on solutions on blocking the appeals considered now by court are submitted. Nevertheless, Alexander Zharov expects blocking of all these resources next year.

The London police (division which is engaged in crimes in the field of intellectual property) declared about detection "gangs which participants are suspected of loading and distribution of tens of thousands of karaoke tracks to the Network". It is declared also that actions of "gang" led to substantial damages of owners of illegally extended works. In practice everything appeared a little differently.

First, all "gang" consists of three people to whom 60, 53 and 50 years were performed. Secondly, in the press release of police officers it is said that "hundreds of albums were illegally loaded into the Network by men that led to hit in the Internet of thousands and thousands of music tracks and to financial losses of record companies". All this sounds very much considerably, but in practice all is a little not so again.

Grumpy Cat or "the Angry Cat" is extremely dissatisfied with activity of one company delivering on the market of coffee and everything that is connected with it. According to owners of a cat whose this nickname — Sauce Tardar, the vendor of coffee illegally uses the image of an animal and his nickname. Now owners of "the Angry Cat" have legal proceedings with this company, being going to receive compensation in the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Besides, it is going to take away from the vendor coffee and domain name of grumpycat.com.

In the Network there are a lot of "star" cats, but "The angry cat" is considered the leader in the right. Owners of an animal earned millions of US dollars, using unusual appearance of the ward. A part of profit — receipts from the companies which purchased a right to use the Angry Cat brand (yes, there is both a patent, and the issued trademark). One of such companies is Grenade Beverage. This company lets out, in particular, Grumppuccino iced coffee, legally (according to the agreement) using an image of an animal. Everything would be good if this company did not start in sale coffee grains with the image of a cat on packaging, and did not begin to operate domain name of grumpycat.com.

The similar incident is connected with the fact that design things like exclusive furniture and other objects, are protected by copyright. The amendments made to the law in 2013 change period of validity of a copyright: if earlier it proceeded within 25 years from the date of production of a subject, then now it lasts even 70 years after death of the author. It turns out that the typical copyright will receive duration in hundred years, and it is even more. So far it is unknown when the law begins action – some sources claim that it will occur in October, 2016.

In principle to be surprised to rigidity of laws on a copyright in Great Britain already difficult – the exception in the law concerning music which you legally purchased was cancelled quite recently. The exception permitted you to make copies of these musical pieces – and now such copies are regarded as illegal.

2 years, 3 months ago
The Moscow City Court made on November 9, 2015 a decision on eternal blocking in the territory of Russia of the website RuTracker.org. The solution had to become effective in 30 days, and on December 4 Mogorsud blocked the website repeatedly because of Guf's songs and Victor Pelevin's book "Inspector".

"doctrines on civil defense" from blocking became the response of Rutracker.org to prosecutions from owners. On December 6 at 00:00 the website became unavailable to users with the Russian IP.

2 years, 3 months ago
Let's consider the existing models of optimum allocation of data on nodes of a computer network. As criteria of efficiency we will use the average volume of the sent data on communication lines at request processing and distribution of updates, a total cost of the traffic generated by functioning of a distributed computing system during a unit of time, the operational cost of a network ¹. As an example we will consider model of optimum file allocation on a computer network with criterion of efficiency – the average volume of the sent data on communication lines at request processing and distribution of updates.